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Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations: Selected Essays

Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations: Selected Essays Paperback - 2004

by Miller, J. R

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  • Title Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations: Selected Essays
  • Author Miller, J. R
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 314
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press, Toronto
  • Date 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0802086691I2N00
  • ISBN 9780802086693 / 0802086691
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 5.94 x 0.93 in (21.79 x 15.09 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Canadiana
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004559876
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971.004

From the publisher

The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller. The collection, comprising pieces that were written over a period spanning nearly two decades, deals with the evolution of historical writing on First Nations and Mtis, methodological issues in the writing of Native-newcomer history, policy matters including residential schools, and linkages between the study of Native-newcomer relations and academic governance and curricular matters. Half of the essays appear here in print for the first time, and all use archival, published, and oral history evidence to throw light on Native-Newcomer relations.

Miller argues that the nature of the relationship between Native peoples and newcomers in Canada has varied over time, based on the reasons the two parties have had for interacting. The relationship deteriorates into attempts to control and coerce Natives during periods in which newcomers do not perceive them as directly useful, and it improves when the two parties have positive reasons for cooperation.

Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations opens up for discussion a series of issues in Native-newcomer history. It addresses all the trends in the discipline of the past two decades and never shies from showing their contradictions, as well as those in the author's own thinking as he matured as a scholar.

About the author

J.R. Miller is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of numerous works on issues related to Indigenous peoples including Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens and Shingwauk's Vision, both published by University of Toronto Press.